Washington DC Adult Entertainment: Tearing apart the Washington press
Written on March 8, 2010 – 12:37 pm | by larrylibido
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“The Room and the Chair”: Tearing apart the Washington press
A Pulitzer winner talks about the newspaper world she happily left behind — and what it’s doing wrong
At the start of Lorraine Adams’ new novel, “The Room and the Chair,” a mysterious F-16 fighter jet crashes into the Potomac River, causing an explosion heard by guests of the Watergate Hotel. Within minutes, the media has interpreted the event in half a dozen ways. And for the remainder of the book, high-ranking White House officials, with the press’s cooperation, will spin it until it blurs, implicating everyone from special operatives in Afghanistan to a teenage prostitute who witnessed the crash.
Adams’ follow-up to her 2005 novel, “Harbor,” reads like a season of “The Wire.” Only here the Washington Spectator (a thinly veiled Washington Post) has replaced the Baltimore Sun, and the streets of Hormuz, in the Persian Gulf, stand in for the projects. Written in a precise, lyrical voice, the book …
See the full article from “Salon”